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Stochastic response analysis of visco-elastic slit shear walls

  • Kwan, A.K.H.;Tian, Q.L.;Cheung, Y.K.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.377-394
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    • 1998
  • Slit shear walls an reinforced concrete shear wall structures with purposely built-in vertical slits. If the slits are inserted with visco-elastic damping materials, the shear walls will become viscoelastic sandwich beams. When adequately designed, this kind of structures can be quite effective in resisting earthquake loads. Herein, a simple analysis method is developed for the evaluation of the stochastic responses of visco-elastic slit shear walls. In the proposed method, the stiffness and mass matrices are derived by using Rayleigh-Ritz method, and the responses of the structures are calculated by means of complex modal analysis. Apart from slit shear walls, this analysis method is also applicable to coupled shear walls and cantilevered sandwich beams. Numerical examples are presented and the results clearly show that the seismic responses of shear wall structures can be substantially reduced by incorporating vertical slits into the walls and inserting visco-elastic damping materials into the slits.

Decoupling of Background and Resonance Scatterings in Multichannel Quantum Defect Theory and Extraction of Dynamic Parameters from Lu-Fano Plot

  • Lee, Chun-Woo
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.891-896
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    • 2009
  • Giusti-Suzor and Fano introduced translations of the scales of Lu-Fano plots by phase renormalization in order to decouple the intra- and inter-channel couplings in multichannel quantum defect theory (MQDT). Their theory was further developed by others to deal with systems involving a larger number of channels. In different directions, MQDT was reformulated into forms with a one-to-one correspondence to those in Fano's configuration mixing theory of resonance for photofragmentation processes involving one closed and many open channels. In this study, the theory was further developed to fully reveal the coupling nature, decoupling of the background and resonance scattering in physical scattering matrices as well as to further extract the dynamic parameters undiscovered by Fano and his colleagues. This theory was applied to the photoabsorption spectrum of $H_2$ observed by Herzberg's group.

Stable Degradation of Benzoate by Klebsiella oxytoca C302 Immobilized in Alginate and Polyurethane

  • Kim, Jun-Ho;Jeong, Won-Hwa;T.B. Karegoudar;Kim, Chi-Kyung
    • Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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    • v.7 no.6
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    • pp.347-351
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    • 2002
  • Benzoate produced from the degradative pathways of various aromatic chemicals is generally recognized as a pollutant compound. However, various bacterial strains isolated as benzoate degraders have exhibited certain limits to their functions, including a loss of viability and degradability when cultivated in a broth medium for a longer time. Accordingly, immobilization techniques have been utilized to overcome such problems, and the current study examined the use of alginate and polyurethane for immobilizing Klebsiella oxytoca C302 to extend its viability and degradability of benzoate. The organism was well encapsulated by both matrices and the immobilized cells showed a high stability as regards their viability and degradability of 2 mM benzoate in a MM2 broth medium during cultivation for longer than 60 h in a semicontinuous batch system.

Analysis of circular plates on two - parameter elastic foundation

  • Saygun, Ahmet;Celik, Mecit
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.249-267
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    • 2003
  • In this study, circular plates subjected to general type of loads and supported on a two-parameter elastic foundation are analysed. The stiffness, elastic bedding and soil shear effect matrices of a fully compatible ring sector plate element, developed by Saygun (1974), are obtained numerically assuming variable thickness of the element. Ring sector soil finite element is also defined to determine the deflection of the soil surface outside the domain of the plate in order to establish the interaction between the plate and the soil. According to Vallabhan and Das (1991) the elastic bedding (C) and shear parameters ($C_T$) of the foundation are expressed depending on the elastic constants ($E_s$, $V_s$) and the thickness of compressible soil layer ($H_s$) and they are calculated with a suitable iterative procedure. Using ring sector elements presented in this paper, permits the generalization of the loading and the boundary conditions of the soil outside the plate.

Determination of Germanium(IV) by Differential Pulse Anodic Stripping Voltammetry(I) (Differential Pulse Anodic Stripping Voltammetry법에 의한 게르마늄 분석에 관한 연구(제1보))

  • 문동철
    • YAKHAK HOEJI
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 1983
  • Voltammetric deposition and differential pulse anodic stripping (DPASV) of Ge(IV)at a gold electrode was investigated. Germanium (IV) exhibits two stripping peaks by DPASV in sodium borate solution, the first peak at about -1.1v. vs SCE and the second one, in the range of -0.6 to -0.2v. vs SCE. Factors affecting the sensitivity and precision included the nature of working electrode, supporting electrolytes, deposition potential, deposition time, pH, pulse height, voltage scan rate. The relative standard deviation of the measurements of the peak currents, for 100ng/ml Ge(IV), was less than ${\pm}3%$. The detection limit of Ge(IV) was 0.01ng/ml. Percent recovery in the extraction procedure of Ge(IV) from matrices by benzene in c-HCl, followed by back extraction with saturated borax solution, ranged from 96 to 104%.

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Characterization of Natural Organic Matter in Spring Water

  • Yoo, Hee-Jin;Choi, Yoon-Ji;Cho, Kun
    • Mass Spectrometry Letters
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.90-94
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    • 2020
  • Interest in aspects of industrialization relating to human health has increased. Accordingly, the use of labels such as 'natural foods' and 'organic ingredients' has become more widespread, and greater emphasis is being placed on improving quality of life. Water is an essential element for human life, and water quality has a significant impact on human health. However, technology that can precisely determine the substances present in water is still lacking. This study was conducted to establish a complete mass spectrometry process, from pretreatment to analysis, to measure and characterize natural organic matter (NOM) in Korean spring water samples. Salts and other matrices were removed from the samples using solid-phase extraction (SPE) with two different columns (PPL and C18). After establishing an accurate analysis method, the experimental results were evaluated based on Van Krevelen diagrams and analysis of molar O/C and H/C ratios. The method for characterizing NOM introduced herein should facilitate evaluation of water quality.

Structural Dynamic System Reconstruction for Modal Parameter Estimation

  • Kim, H. Y.;W. Hwang
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.150-150
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    • 2000
  • We as modal parameter estimation technique by developing a residual based system reconstruction and using the system matrix coordinate transformation. The modal parameters can be estimated from and residues of the system transfer functions expressed in modal coordinate basis, derived from the state space system matrices. However, for modal parameter estimation of multivariable and order structural systems over broad frequency bands, this non-iterative algorithm gives high accuracy in the natural fre- and damping ratios. From vibration tests on cross-ply and angle-ply composite laminates, the natural frequencies and damping ratios on be estimated using tile coordinates of the structural system reconstructed fro the experimental frequency response. These results are compared with those of finite element analysis and single-degree-of-freedom curve-fitting.

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Structural Dynamic System Reconstruction for Model Parameter Estimation

  • Kim, H. Y.;W. Hwang
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.527-527
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    • 2000
  • Wean modal parameter estiimation technique by developing a residual based system reconstruction and using the system matrix coordinate transformation. The modal parameters can be estimated from and residues of the system transfer functions expressed in modal coordinate basis, derived from the state space system matrices. However, for modal parameter estimation of mllltivariable and order structural systems over broad frequency bands, this non-iterative algorithm gives high accuracy in the natural fre and damping ratios. From vibration tests on cross-ply and angle-ply composite laminates, the natural frequencies and damping ratios can be estimated using the coordinates of the structural system reconstructed from the experimental frequency response. These results are compared with those of finite element analysis and single-degree-of-freedom curve-fitting..

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Effect of Graphene Oxide on the Properties of Its Composite Fibers with PMMA and Nylon 6,6 (고강도 PMMA 및 나일론 - 산화그래핀 복합재료 섬유의 제조 및 특성평가)

  • Hwang, Sang-Ha;Lee, Dong-Wook;Baek, Jong-Beom;Shin, Hyeon-Suk;Park, Young-Bin
    • Composites Research
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.1-4
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    • 2011
  • In this work, we successfully fabricated graphene oxide (GO) and GO-based PMMA composite fiber and nylon films. Dynamic mechanical and tensile properties of PMMA-GO composite fiber showed that GO is efficient reinforcement for polymer matrices. However, Nylon 6,6-GO composite films showed low reinforcement efficiency in terms of dynamic mechanical and tensile properties due to the colloid instability of GO in formic acid at a low pH level.

Optimal Material and Conditions for the Immobilization of Rhizopus nigricans in the $11{\alpha}-Hydroxylation$ Reaction of Progesterone (Rhizopus nigricans를 이용한 Progesterone의 $11{\alpha}-Hydroxylation$ 반응에서의 고정화 재료와 조건의 최적화)

  • Kim, Myung-Hee;Lee, Jung-Jin;Kim, Mal-Nam;Min, Byung-Re
    • The Korean Journal of Mycology
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.84-88
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    • 1990
  • Hydroxylation in the $11{\alpha}$-position of progesterone molecules was carried out using Rhizopus nigricans spores immobilized within various gel matrices, among which polyacrylamide and agar gel were proved to be the most effective. Reactions with the immobilized cells and in­tact free cells showed almost identical conversion rate of progesterone, optimal pH and reaction time for attaining maximal yield, from which were confirmed absence of any decay and modification of enzyme activities.

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